Category: Day to day

Crisp Winter Days

I love this time of year. When the winds chill and the days are dry. It’s an opportunity to wear scarves without them getting wet. Heavy winter coats embrace and enclose in comfort. I appreciate the heater in my car. I appreciate the warmth produced when cycling. I like to wake up all snuggled in…
Usability Barcamp

I took a break from the preparation to move house to attend Wellington’s first Usability Barcamp today. The sessions I attended (and took part in) were: I have lots of references to follow up. Unfortunately, due to the move preparation, I didn’t attend the after-drinks at the Southern Cross. Thanks to all those attending for…
Locked Out

I got to work today and discovered no keys. The guy who is normally first into the office doesn’t work Wednesdays. I had to get someone else to unlock for me. This was a minor problem; or more significance is my keys include my house key. I don’t need keys to bike and I’m not…
Being Organised

I’ve started my Christmas shopping. Is that sickening or what? Three gifts so far, two to be posted overseas and one local. Where in Auckland can I find a left-handed corkscrew?
Uninspired

I’m not feeling too good with this cold and I’m not inspired to write. Soon I’ll write about the guessed at ingredients of my Porcini and Spinach stuffed Pasta Shells on Thursday, and other events in my not so interesting life. Ah well, it could be worse; I could get hit by a van.
Traffic problems

I’d rather be biking that driving in this. Instead biking or driving I’ll be getting wet walking to the bus stop, waiting a while, sitting on the bus, then walking down my street. A hot shower is on order. If I was cycling I’d be home sooner and warmed up from the bike ride, or…
Downhill from the start

I got my first comment spam today. The only thing to be happy about is the delay it has taken. It was on my old blog. I saw it because I have an RSS feed of the HaloScan comments I used with Blogger. It’s been quickly deleted so I hope the search engines didn’t index…
Dinner last night

Glyn invited me to dinner last night. It was a spur-of-the-moment invitation. After sitting down, but before Peter brought me a G&T, I saw the reason for the invite: a brand new DVD player, still in the box. He needed someone to connect it up for him. It turned out he had bought both the…
Broken foot

2:40 pm: I’m early for my appointment with my doctor. I’m writing this on my organizer and will upload it when I get home. Most of today has been early; I woke before my alarm and was out the door by 7:15. Driving at that time meant no traffic problems and parking was available near…
Man of my dreams

I just saw this really hot guy. I was walking up the hill where I work, and this guy was walking down to my building. Dark hair, goatee, suit, confident, good looking. What more could I want? I hope he’s gay and that I’m his type. It’s hard to trigger the prolonged gaydar glance whilst…